14: Working with Intent Mark Bennetts

Mark Bennetts has over 30 years in the technology sales and leadership fields.  Mr. Bennetts is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of guiding enterprise technology organizations as they grow and scale.  He has held various roles ranging from VP, Worldwide Sales and Partners to other sales and leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and Palo Alto Networks.  He currently runs the Sales GTM teams for the Strategic Verticals at Palo Alto Networks. 

He currently sits on the Board of Stocking for Kids, a United Way (501c.3) charity centered around providing Christmas stockings for children that would otherwise go without.  In addition, he is a proud veteran of the Armed Forces (US Army) and active in many aspects of veteran’s affairs, and mental health. 

 

• Talks about the right role with the right company and culture
• Establishing your network and relationships early in your sales career and nurture them
• Building and establishing your lifelong brand
• Learned to slow down and take time to learn from every level of the ladder in your career
• Working with intent – Planning out your day
• Spend 60% of your time in front of your customers
• Be prepared, have an agenda and work on a plan when you present with a customer
• Build up your bigger stream of passive income so when you exit your W2, you can prepare for a lifestyle that you and your family enjoy
• Get educated and attend monthly meetups about RE investing
• Mark served in the army and helps with programs that benefit veteran needs

 

In terms of past investment history, he has owned multiple businesses in real estate, as well as a group of Great Clips hair franchises.  Currently, he invests in mostly commercial real estate (Hotel/Condo/Apartments/Strip Malls/Retail Office Parks/raw land) in his home markets of Washington State, and Arizona.

 

Mark can be reached at marbenne@comcast.net

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